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The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van Roddy Doyle
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

The Field (1990) — Richard Harris. Plot: The third installment of Irish author Roddy Doyle's 'Barrytown Trilogy', following 'The Commitments' and 'The Snapper', depicts the hilarious yet poignant adventures of Bimbo. Title(s): The Snapper and The Van. In terms of his film work, the Barrytown trilogy (The Commitments, The Snapper & The Van) would probably be his most famous work here, along with Intermission. You save £6 (46%) The third part of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown trilogy, started by Alan Parker with The Commitments and picked up by Stephen Frears with The Snapper. Colm Meaney still Where he is Jimmy Rabbitte Snr in the books and The Commitments film, he is Dessie Curley in 1993 film The Snapper and just referred to as 'Larry' in the movie version of The Van (1996). I read The Snapper when I was in high school, and was always interested in completing the Barrytown Trilogy (first book, The Commitments). The surname of the Rabbitte family at the centre of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown trilogy of books had to be changed to Curley in the film of The Snapper because 20th Century Fox had the rights to the Rabbitte name on film after they made the movie version of The Commitments. And become a woman not to be confused with the kelpie…). The other two movies, also worth your time, are “The Snapper,” Irish slang for baby, and “The Van,” about two friends opening what we call a food truck over here. In the Name of the Father–Daniel Day Lewis/Peter Postlethwaite. Doyle had a hand in the screenplay for all three. The other books in the Barrytown Trilogy were also adapted into films featuring Colm Meaney as the father: The Commitments, directed by Alan Parker, and The Van, directed by Stephen Frears. The Van (1996) –Colm Meany and the Irish World Cup victory. The Commitments (1991)–Hardest Working Band in the World! Michael Collins (1996) –Liam Neeson/Alan Rickman. THE COMMITMENTS: Part of Roddy Doyle's “Barrytown” trilogy (because they are set in the fictional Barrytown), this is a splendid picture about an Irish band named — what else— The Commitments, who are as determined as they are scruffy. The Barrytown Trilogy is a collection of three of Roddy Doyle's books that all follow a member of the Rabbitte clan. Some Mother's Son (1996)–Helen Mirren in a story of the hunger strikers.